Show owl NEWS 4 THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service NEW EW YORK theres a nice alliteration in cape town cupper clipper and an invitation to rhyming which in other days might have interested te tin clippers skipper shipper pan alley hes a topper the tall jobs job a whopper hopper W blond boy ish looking capt harold E gray who brings the ship back from the belgian congo go on a round trip of miles is smart and good looking and could walk on in a jerome kern musical commemorating his exploit but it is a safe bet that he never will just a glance at his work sheet for the last 15 years shows that he had to keep his mind on his work to attain this eminence there may never be a casey jones of the air the bucko lad who will ride anything anywhere on the slightest provocation just a look at the dashboard of a modern plane is enough to convince one of that even the lindbergh sag saga ga might have been diff different erent if it had been paced to differential equations but of course there will be another kipling with another night mail who will find in modern air transport an exalted theme this time fully realized just now there seems to be no master or journeyman of poetry who is quite up to it 14 As to being a clipper skipper any lad who starts to daydream day dream his way into the job had better make other arrangements here are a few but not all of the qualifications of 35 year old captain gray he be is a master mariner a licensed engine mechanic a licensed airplane mechanic a graduate radio engineer a licensed radio operator a first class seaman and the holder of certificates in international law maritime law and business administration about par for the course on the ocean fairways for the men who command the big flying ships mr gray was born in guttenberg iowa in 1906 and left the university of iowa to take flight training at brooks field in the army sch school ool he later went to the university sl ty of detroit and took a degree in aeronautical engineering he flew first for the ford motor company and then joined the pan american airways for flights to the canal zone 1 in 1931 he took up studies for his master pilot rating and became one of the youngest men to attain the highest flying rank of s master of ocean flying boats 0 table THIS HIS department never has been able to get it quite straight as to women owning 70 per cent of the wealth of the country and wield ing influx A play for their ence ee in pub 70 of wealth lie lic affairs some persons informed in finance in politics say they do and some say they dont miss cathrine curtis the tall junoesque lady who organized women investors in america a few years back not insi cst that women do have all this money and say so but makes it a business to see that they get a play for it a big new feminine pressure group if you want to put it that way at washington miss aliss curtis curds leads her embattled 70 per cent if what it is into a fight against price control legislation her battle is one of many on various public issues which she has centered at washington in her home town glen falls N Y where her father ran a hotel the 18 year old miss curtis saw gus thomas play arizona ariona 11 she followed it around the upstate up state circuit and became so saturated with its romantic glamour that she kept right on going to arizona there harold bell wright saw her and her put in his moving picture Pic shepherd of the hills 11 this was her start in various moving picture and ranching enterprises it was in 1935 that in new york her home she present organized the ve it women bome n investors in appears that nobody ever e has figured out how much of that 70 per cent is merely something in the cifes name tor for safekeeping safe keeping |